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Revision as of 23:25, 6 February 2006

Ongoing improvement of the Help System is underway at the Misplaced Pages Help Project.

Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia written by its users in over 200 languages worldwide. Anyone can edit Misplaced Pages, and its contents are free and open. The following articles explain everything about reading, authoring, and participating in the Misplaced Pages community.

Don't know where to jump in and contribute? Find out where your help is needed at the Community Portal.

Warning: Misplaced Pages may contain false information and offensive content. Read our disclaimer for more information.

Contents

  Getting Started
  Browsing Misplaced Pages
  Account Settings and Maintenance
  The Misplaced Pages Community
  More about Misplaced Pages
  Policies, conventions and guidelines
  Communication
  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  Editing Misplaced Pages - The Basics
  Contributing to Misplaced Pages
  Advanced editing
  Tracking changes
  Technical information
  Fun stuff


Getting Started

Introduction to Misplaced Pages
Sandbox
About Misplaced Pages
How to log in
Why create an account?
Choosing a username
Sign the new-user log - introduce yourself!
The Help Desk - post questions, receive answers
Boot Camp - learn about how Misplaced Pages works without all that military training
Helping Hand Group - request a tutorial or help page be improved or created
Glossary of Misplaced Pages terms

Browsing Misplaced Pages

Who writes Misplaced Pages (essential information for new readers)

Browsing - how to:

Search for an article (including "Go" button)
Explore Misplaced Pages
Use the what links here browsing tool
Use talk pages (discussion pages) ( full policy)
archiving talk pages to separate subpages.
Use the Recent Changes page
Patrolling the recent changes
Do research using Misplaced Pages
(See also Category of resources for researchers).
Play media files in Misplaced Pages
Other Misplaced Pages languages

Main Page alternates

PDA version
Text only
Links only
Simple
Blue boy
Classic
Executive
Italian-style
Misty breeze
Regal
Shades of blue
Edit me

Navigation System

Basic topics
Navigation browse bar (see very top of this page)
Almanac
Categories
FAQs
Glossaries
Lists
Portals
Overviews
Site news
Index

Featured content

Featured articles
Featured pictures
Featured lists
Featured portals

Account settings and maintenance

Your Misplaced Pages account - how to:

Customize your Misplaced Pages experience
Change your preferences
Change your signature
Change your username
Delete your account
Log in (troubleshooting)
Customizing your display with CSS (advanced programming knowledge required)

The Misplaced Pages community

Wikipedian culture

Wikipedians
List of Wikipedians
WikiProjects: groups of Wikipedians creating standards on specific subjects
List of WikiProjects
Collaborations: Wikipedians focusing on one article for a set amount of time
List of collaborations
Wikipedian humor
Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
Wikipediholism
Unusual articles
Editcountitis
The edit counter
Wikipedian games
Awards
The Wikihalo: the ultimate award.

Vandalism

Reverting a page to undo vandalism (and the Three-revert rule)
Reporting vandalism to administrators (urgent cases only)
Persistent vandals
Current vandalism
The Counter Vandalism Unit
Most vandalized pages
Don't provoke the vandals!

Voting and consensus

Feedback by editors, to editors.

Featuring an article
Featuring pictures
Featuring lists
Peer review
Administrator nominations

You can also ask the Misplaced Pages community to consider...

...deleting an article (full policy)
...moving a page or merging it with another (and how to actually do it)
...protecting a page (full policy)
...deleting, merging, or renaming a category
...deleting a template (or a stub type)
...deleting images and other media

File:Nuvola apps clanbomber.pngResolving disputes

Stay cool!
Be nice to newcomers
Alert others
Request assistance from a members' advocate
Dispute resolution
Arbitration policy

More about Misplaced Pages

Welcome!
Overview of Misplaced Pages (All about Misplaced Pages)

Category:Misplaced Pages

What Misplaced Pages is not
Press Kit resources for press enquiries
About Wikipedians

Category-based access to pages about Misplaced Pages
Glossary of common Misplaced Pages terms
What Misplaced Pages is not
Another way to browse help topics
Category:Misplaced Pages how-to (a full list of help topics)

Policies, conventions and guidelines

The Simplified Ruleset: Misplaced Pages in a nutshell
The Five Pillars that define what Misplaced Pages is...
...and is not
Misplaced Pages in eight words
Misplaced Pages etiquette
Be bold!
Neutral point of view (NPOV)
Misplaced Pages:Verifiability
Copyright
Editing policy
Image use policy
Citing Misplaced Pages
Libel
Page protection policy
Deletion policy
Policy on permanent deletion of pages
Privacy policy
List of policies and guidelines
List of official policies
List of guidelines

Communication

Asking questions

Getting in touch

Contact us
Discussion pages
User pages
Babel - multi-lingual Wikipedians
Misplaced Pages mailing lists
Chat with other users on IRC
Get involved at the Community Portal
Village pump
News
Policy
Technical
Proposals
Assistance
Miscellaneous
Bug reports and feature requests
Wikipedians
Surveys
Meta Misplaced Pages, a site that works alongside the main Misplaced Pages project. Here you can post essays and discussions about topics related to Misplaced Pages.
Contingency page for when the main Misplaced Pages server is down
Instant Messaging
In person meetings

Keeping informed: News

The Signpost - Misplaced Pages's newspaper
Misplaced Pages in the media
Goings-on
Announcements
Press releases
Stats
Milestones
Regional notice boards


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

FAQ list
Overview FAQ
Administration FAQ
Contributing FAQ
Editing FAQ
Schools FAQ
Misc FAQ
Problems FAQ
Readers' FAQ
Technical FAQ

Editing Misplaced Pages - The Basics

Tutorial
Simplified ruleset, essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors).
For more advanced policies and guidelines, see that section on this page.

Editing - how to:

Edit a page, including markup details.
Experiment with editing pages in the sandbox
You can also carry out editing experiments "in situ" by editing the page itself and using the Show Preview button. Be careful not to accidentally save the page though! If you do, then Revert your changes.
Cheat! (editor's cheat sheet - keep this open in another window)
Use sections in an article
Test edits, and other things
Revert a page to an earlier version
Use categories
Use redirect pages
Do a purge
Edit an article so long that you can't edit
edit with an external editor
See also Advanced editing below

File:Nuvola apps kcmdevice.png Saving - how to:

Report your change in the edit summary
Handle an edit conflict
Use minor edits

Creating links - how to:

Link Misplaced Pages articles
Use an alternate link descriptor (the piped link)
Link together Misplaced Pages articles in different languages
Link words in articles to articles on sister projects
Link to related articles on sister projects
Create links to external pages
Use page names
Use namespaces
Use headings as anchors' to link to

Creating pages - how to:

Start a new page
Naming conventions in general (full list of specific naming conventions)
Create pages for topics with several different definitions
Create subpages
Stub articles (List of Stub Styles)

Contributing to Misplaced Pages

Lifecycle of an article - how to:

Start a new page
Name and rename a page
Improve an article
Write your first article
Write a better article
Write a great article
Write the perfect article
Translate articles
Find out where your help is needed at the Community Portal

Style

List of style guidelines
Layout
Naming conventions
Disambiguation (pages which resolve ambiguity for articles with similar titles)
Captions
Image use
Manual of Style
Biographies
Command-line examples
Dashes
Dates & numbers
Disambiguation
Headings
Links
Mathematics
Pronunciation
Titles
Trademarks
How to link to Wikimedia projects

Sources

Cite the sources: How | Why | What is a reliable source?
Sources for articles
List of Resources for researchers
Public domain resources
Newspapers and magazines request service

Advanced editing

File management - how to:

Start a new page
Move and merge a page
Delete pages/images/categories
Protect and unprotect pages (sysops only)

Formatting - how to:

Use Wiki markup codes
HTML codes in wikitext
Use tables
Use special characters
Use easy timeline syntax
Edit mathematical formulae using TeX

Templates

A quick guide to templates
Templates
Boilerplate text
List of available templates

Images

Place images into articles
How to upload files to Misplaced Pages (and the actual form)
Understand the image description page
Create graphics for pages
Image use policy
Images and multimedia
Image list

Administrator privileges

Administrator nominations
Administrators page
List of administrators
Administration FAQ
Administrator's reading list
Bureaucrats
Elections
Meta
Purge
Fix cut & paste moves
Page protection

The Misplaced Pages syntax

Super-advanced editing

Help:Editing shortcuts
Tools
Editing toolbar
"Magic words"
Variables

Tracking changes

Special pages
Recent changes (and the recent changes patrol)
Enhanced recent changes
Related changes
Watching pages
Public watchlists
Page history
Diff
User contributions
Edit summary
Minor edit

Technical information

About Wikimedia
The MediaWiki software
MediaWiki User's Guide (links to another website) For those who have installed the MediaWiki software that runs this site, and need help using it.
Requests and bug reports
Browser notes
Bots
How to Download Misplaced Pages content
Database download
Export page(s) in XML

Fun stuff

Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
Department of Fun
Misplaced Pages:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
Misplaced Pages:Talk page highlights
m:Really Reformed Church of Misplaced Pages